Years before and if we had the triumph of the good roads movement about the same time, we would not have had the inter urban era. We can make a case, too that the inter urban is the transition between steamed railroad less and express of becoming the motor truck. And, in the near future, in fact, on thursday, i want to talk about trolley or inter urb urban freight. To begin, lets keep in mind that the american inter city road system was awful. We did talk about that turnpike movement at the end of the 18th century that continued in the earliest 20th century. We had that National Road that was financed by the federal government in the 1840s and 50s. Also, there were local improvements, for example, the plain roads stand out as a good illustration. It would not be until the 1890s when there was this bicycle crazed, the safety of bicycle were introduced in the latter part of 1880s and communities were being pressured to have better roads. Perhaps, only going out in the suburbs. We have pl
Controversial release. Outrage as brock turner is set to be freed from jail in a matter of hours just three months after being convicted of Sexual Assault as we get an exclusive first look at photos taken of turner the night of his arrest. And star spangled controversy. Nfl quarterback Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the National Anthem again this time during a tribute to the military. The crowd reacting instantly. But kaepernick isnt backing down and you might be surprised by whos standing by him, today, friday, september 2nd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on this a lot of people. Were going out in style with great concert out on the plaza. If you have to say goodbye to summer, this is the way to do it. Alicia keys will be on our plaza. Well get music in before the weather turns bad. Thats our top story. Hermine slamming into the florida coast ma
To impeach the commissioner and also the topic you can talk morning. Ryan in houston, texas, up ocrat, we will put you first,. Ryan, go ahead caller good morning. States, something is wrong with them. People voting for trump, something is wrong with them. Good morning. You can talk about public politics as well. Caller good morning. I wanted to talk about getting in on the parties. Not. Utely what ive read and what ive going to be suffering in the United States on our National Security of what or gave way as far as snowden, so hes got to stay where hes at. They did a comparison to clinton, yeah, clinton screwed up, but i dont think theres a comparison there. He did was a lot worse. You esser of two evils, if say, he is the better of two evils. Let me read from the Washington Post about this story. Activist, e is an should get aying he a pardon. Moscow by aking from video leak to a News Conference said he would return to the u. S. Would receive a fair trial does said the espionage not h
3 snow is falling in parts of the mountains, making some roads slick. News 13s Lauren Brigman continues our Live Team Coverage from downtown waynesville. Lauren. The snow is starting to coat the roads there. 3 the roads in mitchell and madison counties are slick this morning. Drivers in Mitchell County. Stay of the roads if possible. Slick conditions are reported on us 19. Especially through spruce pine and highland avenue. The entire south end of the county is dealing with these conditions. Drivers in secondaryroads are going to be very icy this morning. Use caution on i26 through sams gap as well. Im Jaclyn Deaugustino with this ontime traffic report. Brought to you by the wired mouse computer ssutions. 3 3 3 3 breaking news right now out of germany. Two trains crash headon, killing four people and seriously injuring at least 40 others. This is brand new video just into the newsroom from the scene. Crews are still working to get to people trapped in the wreckage. Officials at the sce
The heaviest rain at least just passed through fuquay varina. Dont be surprised if you hear some of the wind out there, gusts up to or even above 40 Miles Per Hour likely as the line moves in. It just passed through fayetteville and as it did it left a 58mile per hour wind gust. So this is all part of a cold front continuing to push through the area of once it clears the area we dry out today. So we will see at least a little bit of sunshine likely by this afternoon. Its warm, 57 degrees in raleigh, its 54 in durham, 56 is our current temperature in fayetteville. If you remember this time yesterday we were dealing with temperatures in the 20s. So were about 30 degrees warmer than that. The temperatures actually warmed up all night. We had a wind gust of 32 Miles Per Hour in raleigh, 35mile per hour in dunn. So the winds howling. Weve got that heavy rain and that may cause some issues just for the next few hours here before we start to so expect some heavy rain by 8 00, 59 degrees our H